Host stage selection of the mealybug parasitoid Anagyrus spec. nov near sinope

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-50

  Chong, Juang Horng ^a,b   Oetting, Ronald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Clutch size; Encyrtidae; Homoptera; Host quality; Hymenoptera; Phenacoccus madeirensis; Pseudococcidae; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ADULT; BODY SIZE; BROOD SIZE; CLUTCH SIZE; DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HOST SPECIFICITY; INSECT; PARASITOID; RESOURCE; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL;

ANAGYRUS; ARTHROPODA; ENCYRTIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; PHENACOCCUS MADEIRENSIS; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE;

EID: 33748629654     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-8703.2006.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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